Railway Link To Tibet Rapped

World News to Note

December 26, 2000

BEIJING -- An international rights group has criticized China's proposed railway line to Tibet, saying it would lead to increased Chinese migration into areas mainly populated by ethnic Tibetans. Chinese state media said earlier this month the government was studying four possible routes for the line, one of China's most ambitious efforts to open the resource-rich Himalayan region to economic development.Tibet, an isolated plateau ringed by vast mountain ranges, is China's only province-level region without a railway network